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Morning crow

I made some catty comments w/r/t Griffey pushing out Langerhans, who the M’s just re-signed and appear to be intent on using in exactly the role I was complaining he’d be well-suited for. Sorry folks! I don’t know why they non-tendered him and then came back, and I kind of suspect the M’s are taking dares now (“Can’t keep Milton Bradley productive, huh? We’ll show you…”), but there it is: no mockery deserved.

Mmm, mmm, delicious.

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22 Responses to “Morning crow”

IwearMsHats on
December 19th, 2009 12:47 pm

I think you should literally eat a crow. It’s the only way you will be forgiven.

bram on
December 19th, 2009 1:11 pm

My yard is usually full of delicious, delicious crows. You can eat all of them you wish, any time you wish.

joser on
December 19th, 2009 1:30 pm

Here I was expecting this used as a verb, as in the crowing of a rooster:
“Cock-a-doodle-do you have a 1-2 as good as Felix and Lee?”

Paul B on
December 19th, 2009 3:12 pm

Could you make some catty comments that there’s no way the M’s would ever sign Chase Utley and Albert Pujols?

TIA.

Coug1990 on
December 19th, 2009 3:22 pm

Nothing wrong with you Derek, but I am upset with Jack Zduriencik. I got used to having the M’s make a great move every day. Now, it has been over 24 hours and nothing. I’m bored now.

Not to be a prick, but I have been hoping for an article like this for the last couple days.

Glad for the solid dose of reality, and humility. It reminds me why I read this blog.

diderot on
December 19th, 2009 3:48 pm

You really shouldn’t be too hard on yourself. I seem to remember Dave predicting post-Lee that the front office would probably be done for the rest of the year.

TumwaterMike on
December 19th, 2009 4:05 pm

Remember Langerhans was a Jack guy. I felt pretty strongly that he would somehow be back.

Does anyone have a copy of the 2008 opening day roster? wouldn’t it be something to compare it, Bavasi’s last, with the current roster we have now. How many Bavasi guys are still on it?

Felix, Ichiro and Lopez don’t count because they were gotten by someone else. Pat Gillick I believe.

Auggeydog on
December 19th, 2009 4:25 pm

Bellingham Herald said he signed a $525,000 contract with $90,000 being from the Minor’s. I thought I read if he was offered Arb he would get around a million $’s, is that true? If they save almost $500,000 by doing this it makes sense to me. Now we wait and see who Z brings in for 1st base. Can he make a miracle move and bring in another great player by giving up a little bit? Maybe he can do a Jedi mind trick and make someone believe they need Bradley and Saunders for an All-Star 1st baseman.

EricL on
December 19th, 2009 5:01 pm

Does anyone have a copy of the 2008 opening day roster? wouldnâ€™t it be something to compare it, Bavasiâ€™s last, with the current roster we have now. How many Bavasi guys are still on it?

On the Mariners email list (still going after 16-odd years) I just sent out a roster containing the 27 players with the most playing time in 2008 compared to now.

The players still on the M’s roster are:

Jose Lopez
Ichiro!
Felix
Mark Lowe
Hyphen
Brandon Morrow

That’s it. Some disappeared before Z arrived (Sexson, for example) but in this era of guaranteed contracts, the turnover is remarkable. And of those six, there’s been buzz about trading three of them at some point over the last six months.

That is gracious of DMZ to say. I think his point was still accurate – by signing Griffey Langerhans was off the roster, an unfair spot for a good, committed, useful and cheap player.
But, in the spirit of all things JackZ, everything has worked out for Langerhans, Griffey and the team. And the universe. Someone start mass-printing the “In Jack We Trust” shirts and design the ‘Trader Jack’ iphone app.
Speaking of working out, is USSM moving its Jan. 9th event to a larger venue? Dave tweeted the option was being explored.
Thanks again for the great posts.

jld on
December 19th, 2009 9:55 pm

Does anyone have a copy of the 2008 opening day roster? wouldnâ€™t it be something to compare it, Bavasiâ€™s last, with the current roster we have now. How many Bavasi guys are still on it?

I was curious about this the other day. Of the 44 players that played for the Mariners in 2008, even just for one game and including minor league call-ups, only nine are still with the organization. Pretty amazing if you ask me.

Speaking of working out, is USSM moving its Jan. 9th event to a larger venue? Dave tweeted the option was being explored.

As long as those who got tickets in the first one get a chance to “re-up” as it were. I’d just like to keep my ticket #1! 😛

Edgarrulez on
December 20th, 2009 2:35 am

You said Randy Johnson and at that point my mind went blank. All I could see was standing there at Qwest with my son who is too young to know who Randy Johnson was, one year after I introduced him to Ken Griffey Jr.

My mind is still blank. What were you saying after that?

Breadbaker on
December 20th, 2009 8:29 am

I’ve been out of the country on a cruise, only getting as much news as the New York Times online and ESPN International will provide, which is to say they dealt with the Lee trade as a Phillies story and the Bradley trade as a Cubs story. Last night, I saw someone with a Mariners hat and asked if he was from Seattle. He hadn’t heard about either trade. By the time I gave him the whole scoop he was grinning widely.